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ungenerated

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ generated.

Adjective

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ungenerated (not comparable)

  1. Not generated.
    • 1993, David A. White, Rhetoric and Reality in Plato's "Phaedrus", page 87:
      When Socrates asserts that “no other thing” but soul is capable of self-motion, this fact confers necessity on soul being “ungenerated and immortal.”
    • 2009, Richard McKeon, The Basic Works of Aristotle:
      Surely then whatever is ungenerated and in being must be eternal, and whatever is indestructible and in being must equally be so.
    • 2014, Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan, Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook, page 69:
      So there must be per se causes for the things that come to be. And even if those causes are generated, there must be other per se causes for them as well, until we come to the ungenerated ones.

Verb

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ungenerated

  1. simple past and past participle of ungenerate